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Reusable bags are a safe way to shop. (Photo taken in pre-coronavirus days!)

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Reusable Bags And Your Health: Separating Fact From Fiction

With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that has consumed and disrupted our lives, we’re searching for ways to stay safe: Wear a mask. Practice social distancing. Wash your hands.…

The Green Starbucks Cup (Photo credit: Starbucks/Twitter)

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The Green Starbucks Cup: Green or Greenwashing?

Starbucks recently unveiled in selected locations, a prototype for its new eco-friendly beverage cup. This fully recyclable and compostable “Green Starbucks Cup” sounds like a promising alternative to the beverage…

Bagging your recyclables is a form of wish-cycling.

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Are You Wish-Cycling? 10 Simple Tips to Recycle Right

Are you recycling or wish-cycling? You may have no idea what wish-cycling is, but in our desire to be environmentally responsible through diligent recycling, we’ve all succumbed to it at…

Is recycling a waste of time? It can seem that way.

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Is Recycling a Waste of Time?

Is recycling a waste of time? I was wondering this very question the other day while reading a Facebook post about recycling plastic. Someone had asked if it was possible…

Banning plastic bags has proven effective in reducing plastic pollution.

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Is Banning Plastic Bags the Solution to Our Plastic Problem?

Oddly enough, banning plastic bags is on my mind these days. In a few weeks, New York will join a handful of other states to ban these single-use plastic menaces.…

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Is Plastic Recycling a Red Herring to our Waste Problem?

Is all your diligent plastic recycling effective in tackling our ever-expanding waste crisis? I’m skeptical, and even more so since my recent “field trip” to an incinerator. Yes, you read…

One high impact green lifestyle change: food scrap recycling (aka composting)!

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7 High Impact Green Lifestyle Changes That Help You and the Environment

Which green lifestyle changes have the highest environmental impact? In my opinion, they’re the ones that help shift personal habits but are easy to accomplish. Try one or more of…

Make old jeans part of your clothes recycling pile

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Clothes Recycling: The 5 Best Ways to Do It

Recycling – clothes recycling in particular – has been on my mind recently. We’re moving out of our house of 15 years and it’s shocking to visualize the accumulated mountain…

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5 Common Recycling Myths and the Solutions to Recycle Right

There’s so much confusion about recycling that I thought it would be helpful to write about recycling myths and the solutions to these common misconceptions. So let’s take a look…

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Does Recycling Work? How to Tell and What You Can Do About It

Does recycling work? It’s a complicated question … Let me back up before I tackle that question and ask you first whether you recycle. Do you have a bin of…

Reusable Bags And Your Health: Separating Fact From Fiction

The Green Starbucks Cup: Green or Greenwashing?

Are You Wish-Cycling? 10 Simple Tips to Recycle Right

Is Recycling a Waste of Time?

Is Banning Plastic Bags the Solution to Our Plastic Problem?

Is Plastic Recycling a Red Herring to our Waste Problem?

7 High Impact Green Lifestyle Changes That Help You and the Environment

Clothes Recycling: The 5 Best Ways to Do It

5 Common Recycling Myths and the Solutions to Recycle Right

Does Recycling Work? How to Tell and What You Can Do About It

9 Ways to Stay Sustainable During the Pandemic

Food Waste Recycling: 7 Steps for Easy Home Composting

Climate Change and Diseases: What’s the Connection?

Happy Virtual Earth Day! 6 Ways to Celebrate From Home

Reusable Bags And Your Health: Separating Fact From Fiction